[Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam onpostedaddresses...

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On 2/20/02 1:37 PM, "Damien Morton" <dm-temp-310102@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> As far as I can see thay are using url/cgi encoding in the email
> address. This is trivial to circumvent, as is using html entities, or
> any other reversible scheme.

With a constantly varying algorithm. So they obfuscate, but they never
obfuscate in a predictable way. Which means if you're a spambot, you have to
look at every byte of every page and attempt to de-obfuscate it in every
possible way to see if it's obfuscated. You CAN do it, but you make it
computationally massively expensive.


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